On Wednesday morning, October 21st, leaders across the Bayview community came together for the first ever RBV Disaster Action Planning Summit: 3rd Street Corridor. Nonprofit Organizations, Faith-Based Leaders, Private-Sector Partners, and various representatives across San Francisco’s city agencies gathered at Bayview YMCA to participate in the “Run Your Resilientville” exercise. The goal of the exercise was to raise our community’s awareness of the likely challenges and community stressors we could face and then identify achievable goals we can pursue moving forward so we respond to whatever comes our way. This scenario-based activity includes asset-mapping and needs assessment components that drive participants to map-out resources that are currently available in the Bayview community should a disaster strike, as well as identify anything that the community may be lacking as they navigate the scenario’s mitigation and recovery processes.

The outputs from this exercise will inform the priorities of the Resilient Bayview team moving forward and will help to shape new components of the RBV’s Resilient Action Plan in 2016. For more information on the Resilient Action Plan, visit our website at: http://empowersf.org/resilientbayview/

A special thanks to Bayview YMCA for hosting the event, RBV Leaders for facilitating table activities and sharing their stories,SF CARD for their leadership throughout the summit, and the entire

Bayview Community for participating in this exercise and welcoming us to the community. The Summit would not have been such a wonderful success without all of your support!

8th Annual NEN Awards!

On January 27th, 2015 San Francisco residents and community leaders will join together at City Hall to celebrate the 8th Annual NEN Awards. The stories and projects led by some of the City’s most engaged and dedicated individuals contributes to the ever growing sense of community and opportunity in San Francisco.

As is the NEN Awards tradition, we need you to help us select the winners. So visit the link below and nominate the organizations, and projects, that you feel deserve to be recognized with a NEN Award. The nomination window closes at 5pm on December 4th, so don’t delay – submit your recommendations today.

A priority of Resilient Bayview is to foster an inclusive and transparent information-sharing process. As such, we encourage Bayview community members, stakeholders, partners, and interested parties to attend upcoming Resilient Bayview Working Group Meetings.

The Resilient Bayview Working Group meeting(s) scheduled for November are as follows:

Meeting: Resilient Bayview Strategic Planning Meeting

Date: November 18th, 2015

Time: 10:00am-12:00pm

Location: Bayview YMCA

These meetings, along with their specific time and location, are updated and available for view by visiting the website:

That’s all for this edition of the Resilient Bayview newsletter. Please visit our website to learn more about Resilient Bayview. We look forward to hearing from you and if you want to spread awareness about how your work relates to Resilient Bayview, please email Amanda Trescott. For the latest Resilient Bayview and NEN updates we welcome you to follow us on twitter @nentweet, and like us on facebook at empowernow.